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Japan pulls back on denials of WWII sex slavery

May 18, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that it conducted only a limited investigation before claiming there was no official evidence that its imperial troops coerced Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Associated Press, Cabinet Secretariat, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, China, Elaine Kurtenbach, Far East, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Imperial Army, Japan Communist Party, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Tokyo, Tomoko Kami, Vol 32 No 21 | May 18 - May 24, WWII, Yasukuni Shrine

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